Sacramento daily record-union., 1887-08-13
co.cDrss,o, 1000 PREsIDENrIAL

ana fair count IN hepuDllcan State Is
absurd to hold, even if admitting that the
absent voters were wholly of the lately
enslaved, and still ignored and cowed
class.
Governor Foraker contends that such
indisputable proofs of something being
wrong will not be ignored by the people
who are jealous in the extreme of their
one safeguard-a free ballot and honest
announcement of the result-and he is
correct in his conclusion. That the evil
shall be corrected is not demand of sec
tionalism, nor does it involve "the bloody
shirt" 1t is demand for the equal rights
of voters in every part of the country; it
is matter of common concern, and can
no more be put aside than could similar
fraud by which only Democratic votes
should be drawn from the box, if at
tempted in New York or in California.
Because the blacks were enfranchised
the South in the last Presidential election
had 3S electoral votes, and Mr.. Foraker
insists that had there been free express
sion they would have been cast for Blaine
and Logan. He draws the conclusion,
therefore, that Mr. Cleveland is President
because the white Democrats voted for him
in the South, and gave him the votes to
which they were rightfully entitled, and
because, also, they appropriated So votes
that properly belonged to his opponent
In this way the Democracy came into
power, and because of it, for one thing, it
viii be retired for the public sentiment,
he insists, is rapidly formulating into an
irrepressible demand that such practices as
are illustrated by the Georgia example
must cease. When they do the Republi-
can party will return to power, since all it
demands is the right for every voter to
freely exercise his sovereignty, and that
his vote as cast shall be so counted, and
the will of the people be thus orderly and
lawfully ascertained.
1t is impossible that such conditions as
now exist in the further South can be in
definitely continued they must and will
be broken, and the only organization to
effect it is the Republican party. That it
did not stop the outrage when it was in
power, he attributes to the fact that it has
not had control of the Executive and Leg
islative branches of the Government since
March, 1875, and the true situation was
not comprehended long enough prior to
that time to admit of either the country
or the party becoming educated to the stern
necessities Of the case. The dream of indif-
ference was broken by the election of 1884.
Another reason for the return of the
party to power the Governor finds in its
views upon the tariff-its pronounced
policy for the maintenance of a protective
system, and the utter inability of the De-
mocratic party to deal with the grave
question. So, too, it has shown that it is
incompetent to treat the matter of the
surplus" or to fairly and Justly handle the
pension question. Again, the Administra-
tion has not been able to deal capably with
our foreign interests-the neglect of ex-
tension of our commercial relations with
Mexico and Central American States
notably. The party has demonstrated its
inability to break away in the least from
the old-time ante-war doctrine of extreme
State Rights, which tends to belittle ma
tional importance. The failure of the
Democracy to reduce internal taxes,
coupled with its other cited incapacity,
proves, the Governor holds, that it has no
comprehension of business judgment.
For the application of remedies for
Democratic neglect and incompetency the
country must turn to the Republican party.
which has proved the stanch champion
of free labor, good wages, education and
of reform in the civil service 1t has not
feared to meet any emergency, and of this
the people are fully cognizant They real
ize, also, that there is a vast difference
between the respective standards of moral
worth, political integrity, and patriotic
purpose of the two parties" AS final
argument, Governor Foraker insists that
the people will return the Republican
party to power, to check what he terms
" the revival of the Southern Confederacy."
He cites the fact that the flag was half
masted by the Democracy for ex-Secretary
Thompson; that JEFF Davis disloyal utter
ances and parades received no Democratic
condemnation; that Kentucky Demo-
cratic Convention cheers the allusion to
Union soldiers as " tramps," and their pen
sioning as encouragement of vagabondage;
the laudation of Calhoun and the promi-
nence of Davis at the unwilling of the
monument to "the author of secession"
and finally the scheme of returning the
captured battle flags to the " Confederate
States" In the latter charges of danger
of return of the Confederacy, Governor
Foraker, we take it, is unduly nervous.
While the loyal sentiment of the country
has been outraged by the acts and ex-
pressions he cites, we prefer to believe that
such thing as the revival of the South
ern Confederacy" is not within the cal
culation of possibility. Nevertheless,
that the Republican party wiz return to
power, and that its progress to that end
is aided by such influences as the essayist
puts under indictment, is altogether proba-
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